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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am so very pleased that this story found its home at @lostballoon.bsky.social. A huge thanks to @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and everyone there for publishing it, and to @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop that brought it to life!

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As far as I know, there's no officially released trial transcript. But a local reporter from @rangemedia.co live-posted each day of the proceedings. It's incredibly thorough and illuminating. You can start with the day 1 jury selection here: bsky.app/profile/rang...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/06/2026

A federal jury last week convicted three people on felony conspiracy charges over their involvement in an anti-ICE protest in Spokane, Washington, last June. The “Spokane Three” are awaiting sentencing and face up to six years in prison for conspiracy to impede or injure ICE officers.

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Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This case, targeting three nonviolent protesters, sets a dangerous precedent for our country. For more thorough coverage on this case, check out www.rangemedia.co/spokane-3-tr... and more articles from @rangemedia.co

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The Trial of the Spokane 3: ‘The entire weight of the United States government’

The guilty verdict for three Spokane protesters and what’s next in their case.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I agree. Even knowing the history and political leanings of much of the region, I was shocked at the verdict, especially after sitting in on a few days of the trial and seeing just how peaceful the protest was, in contrast with the aggression of many of the officers. It's a travesty and a tragedy.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I grew up in rural northeast Washington; the political climate is no surprise. But that the charge was pressed at all, and went to trial despite the fact that the former acting US attorney for the district resigned rather than signing the indictment—that should alarm the nation.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The charge of "conspiracy to injure or impede a federal officer" is a Civil War-era charge, and in this case, was merely an excuse to test the waters for further discouraging First Amendment protest. This was politically-motivated, and if left unchecked, will become a playbook for future arrests.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

To be clear: the protest was spontaneous with no advanced planning at all, let alone between these three protesters. No federal, state, or local officers were injured. The prosecution described the protesters linking arms with their backs to ICE as "force."

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Spokane may be small, but this is important for everyone, and deserves national attention: The conviction of the Spokane 3 has chilling, far-reaching implications for nonviolent protest, free speech, and democracy. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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theobamas.bsky.social @theobamas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

SO important that yesterday's #Spokane3 trial verdict gets the national press it deserves; not only does it increase the chances of those 3 incredible community members receiving #justice, it warns others that #ICEprotests are being watched from the sky www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u... @nytimes.com

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ICE Protesters Convicted in a Case That Tested a Trump Strategy

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's beautifully done. Your work over the past two weeks (and year) on this case are a master class in engaged, responsive reporting. Thank you for your dedication to this story and the truth.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The verdict in this case is appalling, and should concern anyone who trusts in the power of free speech and believes in the rights of the American public to nonviolently engage in civil disobedience. This verdict is a warning. Let it also be a wake-up call. www.rangemedia.co/spokane-3-tr...

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The Trial of the Spokane 3: ‘The entire weight of the United States government’

The guilty verdict for three Spokane protesters and what’s next in their case.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"They are scarfing down their mother’s love, bowls clinking." Everything in this micro is so crisp and perfect.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"But can’t I remember so clearly the trees, the night, the sting of a bone in my throat, the safety of embracing the body that carries me?" Aninna Zh's "Fish Bone" in @theoffingmag.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge theoffingmag.com/fiction/fish...

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Fish Bone - The Offing

Fiction - The Offing Magazine

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I love "Scenario: One of Those High School Parent/Teacher Conferences Where the Student is Strongly Encouraged to Attend" by Miranda Keskes because of how deftly it captures its subject. @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge brilliantflashfiction.com/2024/09/30/s...

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SEPTEMBER 2024

NOTHING ELSE TO LOVEBy Pamela Painter This room is supposed to assist me in living but it is a sorry sight. Lumpy bed. Lumpy chair. Potty chair. Bed. TV. Hate TV. Dresser with two drawers too hard …

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

And we're off! Start a 2-week deep dive TODAY into a favorite online flash journal older than 10 years and get your name in the hat to win $400! Please share at least 1 flash daily (up to 4) and tag SmokeLong so we see you! Get on it! www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...

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The Archive Challenge — Win $400! - SmokeLong Quarterly

How often do you read the literary journals you submit your work to? Flash has been around for centuries but as “flash” only for around 23 years, when James Thomas’s wife suggested the term. Lots of o...

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thrilled to be launching MicroMonday today and we're kicking off with a stellar lineup. Please enjoy stories by @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Sheree Shatsky #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/04/07/m...

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Charlotte Lit @charlottelit.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Excited to share the Spring 2025 of our online journal, Litmosphere, with beautiful artwork by @abelmont.bsky.social and fiction, poetry, CNF, and flash by so many talented writers. Check it out! litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2025s...

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Huge thanks to @charlottelit.bsky.social for giving it a home, and to @abelmont.bsky.social for creating and choosing the art that appears alongside it and the rest of the pieces in this gorgeous issue!

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

About a year ago, I was driving home from the grocery store when I passed a homeless man, his shopping cart parked on the sidewalk, building a cairn out of drainage rock. That image planted the seed that grew into this story. litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2025s...

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Lindsey James – Litmosphere

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is so tender and honestly written. Just beautiful.

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New year, new issue coming later this month! Always a great excuse to revisit the contributors from last issue, so get ready for a trip down memory lane this week

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

You've just won the lottery (see if you catch the reference) because you've got a chance to read this haunting read from @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com necessaryfiction.com/stories/by-a...

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By Act Three, the Gun Must Go Off – Necessary Fiction

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/12/2024

Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 27/12/2024

If you’re looking for some great flash to read over your holiday break, these are the most popular Commuter pieces of 2024! electricliterature.com/the-commuters-most-popular-posts-of-2024

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

HI EVERYBODY! Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce... Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN! ⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form: tally.so/r/mKPJ4A and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are

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Writers! Who should be named the BEST
Lit Mags of 2024?

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Crow calls puncture the icy air. In the silences between—our snowshoes punching a trail behind us—we make small talk like we have practiced in class.” — @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social, “To Make Tracks” in Issue 12 vastliterarypress.org/2024/10/12/2...

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To Make Tracks

Crow calls puncture the icy air. In the silences between—our snowshoes punching a trail behind us—we make small talk like we have practiced in class. In my pockets I tuck his facts, the siblings an…

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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"When I ask her how her day was, she doesn’t answer. Or maybe my middle-aged ears have lost her frequency." — @angelines.bsky.social, “Screentime” in Issue 11. vastliterarypress.org/2024/07/13/2...

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Screentime

Beside me on the sofa, my daughter is playing a video game. Only her eyes and fingers move. When I ask her how her day was, she doesn’t answer. Or maybe my middle-aged ears have lost her frequency.…

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Absolutely! The framework of "run, hide, fight" is superior to the old model of hunkering in a classroom regardless of the circumstances. But since that was our first, last, and only training on it, and given in ways so oblivious to the audience, it did far more harm than good.

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Graham (Gray) Scott @graythebruce.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I adore the way this story plays with Chekhov's Law to create tension and then, through a dazzling tour of characters and motivations, still achieves a release that feels realistic and earned. Very curious now about that staff meeting :-)

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That tension teachers face—to love and build relationships with all their students while also being on the lookout for warning signs of violence—isn’t new, but I’ve never felt able to fully reconcile the two. And having it thrown so forcefully in our faces that morning has haunted me since.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Then the bell rang. We went to our classrooms to look our tweens and teens in the eyes and wonder which of them we were supposed to recruit to help us murder what statistically would be a classmate, maybe even a friend. And to wonder which of them might snap and bring a gun in the first place.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

He told us that we were lucky our middle schoolers were physically big enough to do this. He told us more than once that this was what we had signed up for.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

if the door was breached, we were to grab the gun, pull it into ourselves and down. We also needed to choose three students to help—one to grab each of the assailant's arms and one to go for the head with a heavy object and strike until the attacker was incapacitated. Ideally dead.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

At one of our biweekly morning staff meetings, without warning or context, they showed us an FBI propaganda video about how “anyone can survive a mass shooting as long as they have a plan.” The security officer then told us that plan:

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thank you so much for such high praise! And since you asked, the story of that staff meeting:

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I've come back to this one several times. It's incredible.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

okay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

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Not In Our Name: Cisgender Women Against Trans Bathroom Bans

House Representative Nancy Mace and the Congressional GOP have launched a campaign of harassment not just against newly-elected trans Democrat Rep Sarah McBride of Delaware, but against all trans and ...

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We can build the #literaryfiction community beyond the starter packs. Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button. Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts. Here’s how:

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Art gives the gift of insight so we can better understand and contextualize the challenges of living in the world. I just wish it wasn't quite so *necessary* in cases like this.

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Lindsey James @lindseyjameswrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We used to make a homemade version at Christmas each year with a peanut butter and Ritz sandwich coated in chocolate. The commercial version is clearly missing the key ingredient.

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